Thus, even thus, have I lived for full two thousand years—for some six and sixty generations, as ye reckon time—in a Hell, as thou callest it—tormented by the memory of a crime, tortured day and night with an unfulfilled desire—without companionship, without comfort, without death, and led on only down my dreary road by the marsh lights of Hope, which, though they flickered here and there, and now glowed strong, and now were not, yet, as my skill told me, would one day lead unto my deliverer.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

EMILIA You told a lie; an odious, damnèd lie; Upon my soul, a lie; a wicked lie:— She false with Cassio!—Did you say with Cassio?
— from Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare

You told a lie, an odious, damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Great men, of thy calibre, do remain unagitated even in the midst of difficulties like unto mountains never shaken by the velocity of the wind."
— from The Rāmāyana, Volume Two. Āranya, Kishkindhā, and Sundara Kāndam by Valmiki

All these conceivable modifications will make good leather, and the choice of a process often depends largely upon market prices.
— from Animal Proteins by Hugh Garner Bennett

If he will put on no other mark of distinction, let us make him wear his horns.'"
— from Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings by Hester Lynch Piozzi

Du waisht selwer os de law uf miner side is—mind sell—ich hob de law uf miner side.
— from Pennsylvania Dutch Rip Van Winkle: A romantic drama in two acts by E. H. (Edward H.) Rauch

I never tired in younger days of drawing lambs unto me, My lot was one to bless and praise, the fire of faith thrill'd through me.
— from Saint Abe and His Seven Wives A Tale of Salt Lake City, with a Bibliographical Note by Robert Williams Buchanan